Dr. Yongdae Kim, Director, KAIST Chair Professor, Electrical Engineering and GSIS, KAIST

Despite known vulnerabilities in cellular networks, standardization bodies like GSMA and 3GPP have been reluctant to implement comprehensive security fixes, often claiming 'no one exploits these vulnerabilities'. To demonstrate real-world exploitability of these vulnerabilities, we present Cellular Metasploit, a penetration testing framework for cellular networks. This framework systematically catalogs and implements known attacks, providing essential security insights for future 6G design, security-enhanced 5G implementations, and safety-critical private networks. In this talk, I will demonstrate its capabilities and discuss how it can drive transparent security discussions in cellular network design.

Speaker's Biography: Yongdae Kim (IEEE Fellow) is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Graduate School of Information Security at KAIST, where he heads the Police Science and Technology Research Center. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2002. From 2002 to 2012, he was a professor at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. At KAIST, he served as Chair Professor (2013-2016) and directed the Cyber Security Research Center (2018-2020). He has served as steering committee chair for NDSS (2024), program chair for ACM WiSec (2022), general chair for ACM CCS (2021), and associate editor for ACM TOPS. His research focuses on discovering and analyzing security vulnerabilities in emerging technologies, particularly drones, autonomous vehicles, and cellular networks.

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